MAY 5 AND 6, 2018

NEWS AND VIEWS

CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA ORDERED BY A JUDGE TO GIVE ALL OF US BACK OUR DATA! THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT I DON’T SEE AN ADDRESS TO USE TO APPLY FOR IT. I DON’T REMEMBER FILLING OUT THAT LITTLE QUIZ OF THEIRS, BUT THAT WAS QUITE A WHILE AGO, SO I PROBABLY WOULDN’T REMEMBER.

THIS IS EVEN BETTER THAN FOLLOWING THE MONEY. I HOPE WE’LL SOON GET THE FULL INFORMATION, AND THAT IT WILL LEAD RIGHT UP TO THE WHITE HOUSE LIKE HANSEL AND GRETEL’S BREADCRUMBS – AND TO CONGRESS, WHERE THE OTHER REPUBLICANS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THIS, SUCH AS SENATOR TED CRUZ, ARE WAITING WITH THEIR LAWYERS.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cambridge-analytica-ordered-to-release-data-on-american-voter-report-says/
CBS NEWS May 5, 2018, 10:32 AM
Cambridge Analytica ordered to release data on American voter, report says

PHOTOGRAPH -- Signs for company Cambridge Analytica in the lobby of the building in which they are based on March 21, 2018 in London, England. CHRIS J RATCLIFFE/GETTY IMAGES

The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office has ordered Cambridge Analytica to release all the personal information and data it has on an American voter, opening the way for as many as 240 million U.S. voters to request their data back from the political consulting firm that had ties to the Trump campaign, The Guardian reports. The information ordered to be released includes information on what the firm did with the voter's data and where it got it.

If the company doesn't hand it over, it will face criminal prosecution, according to The Guardian. The U.K. regulator served the enforcement notice to Cambridge Analytica on Friday.

David Carroll, an associate professor at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, brought the case to the Information Commissioner's Office. Carroll told CBSN in March that he followed the practices of all the presidential campaigns in 2016. He filed a lawsuit against Cambridge Analytica under Britain's data protection act when he said he found out it collected data on him.

"This should solve a lot of mysteries about what the company did with data and where it got it from," he said, according to The Guardian. "I hope that it will help the ongoing investigations in my country and yours, and other places like Canada. There's a lot of questions that no one has been able to answer until now so hopefully this will be a major breakthrough in our understanding of what it did."

Last week, Cambridge Analytica announced it was "immediately ceasing all operations." But the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office said "failure to comply with this enforcement notice is a criminal offence."

As political consultants, Cambridge Analytica was hired by campaigns to analyze voters and target them with ads. In the 2016 presidential election, it worked first for Sen. Ted Cruz's campaign, then later for Donald Trump. The Republican benefactors Robert and Rebekah Mercer were Cambridge Analytica's financial backers, and former Trump associate Steve Bannon was on the board.

Recently, Cambridge Analytica has been at the heart of a data scandal that rocked Facebook, the world's largest social network, and led to calls for more regulation of user data. Facebook banned the political data analysis firm in March, and said it believes data from up to 87 million people was "improperly shared" with the firm.

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“YOU’RE A LIAR!” “YOU’RE ANOTHER!” IF ALL THIS WEREN’T A SERIOUS MATTER, I WOULD ROLL ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING. THIS JUDGE ELLIS REMINDS ME OF JUDGE JUDY – NOT NECESSARILY UNFAIR, BUT FAIRLY OFTEN RUDE. SHE AND TRUMP DON’T BELIEVE IN “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.”

SOME PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT BERNIE SANDERS IS TOO OLD TO BE PRESIDENT, BUT IF SO JUDGE ELLIS IS WAY TOO OLD TO BE ON THE BENCH. HE WAS BORN IN 1940, WHICH MEANS HE IS 80, OR WILL BE SOMETIME THIS YEAR. BERNIE IS ONLY THREE YEARS OLDER THAN I AM.

ON THE SUBJECT OF JUDGE JUDY, SEE THE FOLLOWING SOLOMON-LIKE DECISION THAT SHE MADE: https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2017/08/17/judge-judy-dog-in-courtroom/23080672/.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/04/federal-judge-accuses-muellers-team-lying-trying-to-target-trump-cmon-man.html
Federal judge accuses Mueller's team of 'lying,' trying to target Trump: 'C'mon man!'
By Jake Gibson | Fox News

VIDEO -- Federal judge rebukes Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team -- During a hearing for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III challenges scope and authority of the special counsel's investigation; reaction from Republican Congressman; John Ratcliffe from Texas 3:44

A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team during a hearing for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort – suggesting they lied about the scope of the investigation, are seeking “unfettered power” and are more interested in bringing down the president.

"You don't really care about Mr. Manafort,” U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III told Mueller’s team. “You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an impeachment, or whatever."

[REDACTED,UNREDACTED -- SEE THE ARTICLE ABOVE FROM HEAVY – THE TWEET MAKES NO SENSE.]

Further, Ellis demanded to see the unredacted “scope memo,” a document outlining the scope of the special counsel’s Russia probe that congressional Republicans have also sought.

VIDEO -- A round of Robert Mueller's Russia Investigation, who's been indicted, how are the [sic] tied to President Trump, and who's gotten plea deals? Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort: Mueller's probe key moves

The hearing, where Manafort’s team fought to dismiss an 18-count indictment on tax and bank fraud-related charges, took a confrontational turn as it was revealed that at least some of the information in the investigation derived from an earlier Justice Department probe – in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Manafort’s attorneys argue the special counsel does not have the power to indict him on the charges they have brought – and seemed to find a sympathetic ear with Ellis.

The Reagan-appointed judge asked Mueller’s team where they got the authority to indict Manafort on alleged crimes dating as far back as 2005.

The special counsel argues that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein granted them broad authority in his May 2, 2017 letter appointing Mueller to this investigation. But after the revelation that the team is using information from the earlier DOJ probe, Ellis said that information did not “arise” out of the special counsel probe – and therefore may not be within the scope of that investigation.

“We don’t want anyone with unfettered power,” he said.

Mueller’s team says its authorities are laid out in documents including the August 2017 scope memo – and that some powers are actually secret because they involve ongoing investigations and national security matters that cannot be publicly disclosed.

Ellis seemed amused and not persuaded.

He summed up the argument of the Special Counsel’s Office as, "We said this was what [the] investigation was about, but we are not bound by it and we were lying."

He referenced the common exclamation from NFL announcers, saying: "C'mon man!"

PHOTOGRAPH -- Paul Manafort leaves Federal District Court in Washington, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017. Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, and Manafort's business associate Rick Gates have pleaded not guilty to felony charges of conspiracy against the United States and other counts. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

PHOTOGRAPH -- Attorneys for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort argue that the special counsel does not have the power to indict their client on the charges they brought. (AP)

Trump himself drew attention to the judge’s comments later Friday afternoon, during an NRA convention in Texas.

“It’s a witch hunt,” he said. “I love fighting these battles.”

The judge also gave the government two weeks to hand over the unredacted “scope memo” or provide an explanation why not -- after prosecutors were reluctant to do so, claiming it has material that doesn’t pertain to Manafort.

“I’ll be the judge of that,” Ellis said.

House Republicans have also sought the full document, though the Justice Department previously released a redacted version, which includes information related to Manafort but not much else.

The charges in federal court in Virginia were on top of another round of charges in October. Manafort has pleaded not guilty to both rounds. The charges filed earlier this year include conspiring against the United States, conspiring to launder money, failing to register as an agent of a foreign principal and providing false statements.

Earlier this year, Ellis suggested that Manafort could face life in prison, and “poses a substantial flight risk” because of his “financial means and international connections to flee and remain at large.”

Fox News’ Brooke Singman and Judson Berger contributed to this report.


ABOUT JUDGE ELLIS

THE ROBINGROOM WHERE JUDGES ARE JUDGED
http://www.therobingroom.com/Judge.aspx?ID=843

THESE RATINGS ARE GIVEN AS NUMBERED CODING IN A CHART-FORM AND INCLUDE A WRITTEN DESCRIPTION OF SPECIFIC OPINIONS AS WELL. MOST ARE AGAINST JUDGE ELLIS, AS A BIASED AND CLEARLY PRO-TRUMP JURIST, BUT THOSE WHO LIKE HIM ARE, WORD FOR WORD, REPUBLICAN, WITH WORDS LIKE “WITCH HUNT” AND “JACKBOOTED” BEING USED IN THEIR EXPRESSED VIEWS. “JACKBOOTED,” IF YOU DON’T RECOGNIZE IT, IS PART OF A FAMOUS NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION RECRUITMENT LETTER, WHICH THEY EVEN SENT TO ME, A FEMALE REGISTERED DEMOCRAT, SOME FIFTEEN OR SO YEARS AGO.

SIX OUT OF THE EIGHT COMMENTS ARE PRO-MUELLER AND THE OTHER TWO ARE FIERCELY AGAINST HIM. I, BEING PERFECTLY RATIONAL AND FAIR, AGREE WITH THE SIX. THIS IS AN INTERESTING SITE. TAKE A LOOK AT IT.

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T.S. Ellis III, Federal Judge: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
By Jessica McBride
May 4, 2018 at 6:11pm

ART -- A court sketch of Judge T.S. Ellis during the John Walker Lindh trial.

The federal judge presiding over part of the case against former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, T.S. Ellis III, is a Ronald Reagan appointee who questioned the special prosecutor’s scope.

During his years on the bench, the judge, based in Alexandria, Virginia, has handled high-profile cases, sometimes coming down on the side of entities like the CIA and Blackwater. He’s a no-nonsense former Naval aviator.

Ellis raised eyebrows on May 4, 2018 when he told special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s team during a court hearing: “You don’t really care about Mr. Manafort. You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an impeachment, or whatever.”

According to Fox News, Ellis also said the special prosecutor’s team’s argument amounted to: “We said this was what [the] investigation was about, but we are not bound by it and we were lying.” He added, “C’mon man!” Ellis alleges the prosecutors are trying to pressure Manafort to flip on Trump, saying, “the vernacular is, to sing.”

The judge has handled difficult cases involving national security. “Judge Ellis has presided over several high-profile national security cases, including United States v. Lindh (the so-called ‘American Taliban’ case); United States v. Franklin, Rosen, and Weissman, in which defendants were charged with engaging in a conspiracy to communicate National Defense Information to Israeli officials and AIPAC, in violation of the Espionage Act; and El-Masri v. Tenet, in which plaintiff Khalid El-Masri sued the CIA and three private security companies, alleging extraordinary rendition and torture,” a Princeton University biography on him reads.

Who is Judge T.S. Ellis III?

Here’s what you need to know:

1. Ellis Was Born in Bogota, Colombia, Has Senior Status on the Federal Bench & Wrote an Essay Arguing the Executive Branch Sometimes Over-Classifies Materials

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Judge T.S. Ellis III was born in Bogota, Colombia, according to Ballotpedia. He is “a federal judge on senior status with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,” the site reports.

According to the Federal Judicial Center, Ellis was born in 1940 and his full name is Thomas Selby Ellis III.

There aren’t many photos of Ellis available, but the one with the fact above, which was circulated by a supporter of the judge on Twitter, first ran in Law.com alongside a story about Ellis ruling on a trademark case.

He wrote a 2013 essay describing the challenges inherent in national security cases. “National Security cases present challenging problems for federal courts—case management problems and problems raised by the novel and difficult legal issues these cases typically present,” Ellis wrote. “…On the basis of my exposure to classified information over a number of years…I have a firm suspicion that the executive branch over-classifies a great deal of material that does not warrant classification.”

Ellis also noted, though, that “Especially important here is the need to avoid disclosure of information that might reveal to an enemy analyst our country’s sources and methods of obtaining intelligence information.” The judge now finds himself in a similar quandary; he’s demanded an unredacted memo explaining the Mueller probe’s scope, but prosecutors are arguing portions of it are classified.

2. Ellis Was Nominated to the Bench by Ronald Reagan
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PHOTOGRAPH -- President Ronald Reagan

Ellis was placed on the bench by a conservative president: Ronald Reagan. He was confirmed on a voice vote.

“Nominated by Ronald Reagan on July 1, 1987, to a seat vacated by Robert R. Merhige. Confirmed by the Senate on August 5, 1987, and received commission on August 6, 1987. Assumed senior status on April 1, 2007,” his biography on the FJC page says. (Merhige had famously presided over Richmond, Virginia school desegregation cases, among others.)

“He is known for his sense of humor, his long digressions and his demanding and somewhat confrontational attitude toward the lawyers who appear before him,” The Washington Post reported of Ellis.

3. Ellis Served in the Military & Attended Princeton
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Judge Ellis has an Ivy League background. He graduated from Princeton University in 1961 (his bachelor’s degree was in engineering) and received a Harvard law degree in 1969. He has a diploma of law from the University of Oxford Faculty of Law that dates to 1970, his bio reads.

He served in the U.S. Navy from 1961-1966. According to Princeton University, Ellis “served as an aviator in the U.S. Navy from 1961-67, attaining the rank of Lieutenant.”

Before his nomination to the bench, Ellis was a lawyer working in private practice. He has taught courses at the College of William and Mary, although that work dates back to the early 1980s. He worked in private practice in Richmond, Virginia for the firm Hunton & Williams LLP. “…he was a litigation partner in private practice with the Virginia-based international law firm of Hunton and Williams from 1969-87,” Princeton reports.

According to Bloomberg, he has been a board member of numerous legal associations, including the Virginia Poverty Law Center and Science Museum of Virginia.

4. He Sided With Blackwater in a Case & Allowed a Democratic Congressman to Stay Free Pending Appeal

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OK HERE is the REAL T.S. Ellis who wants the memo redacted.[sic] When the lawyer said its not related to Manafort Ellis said "I'm the Judge"

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The judge’s colorful commentary has sparked both praise and criticism and, as you can see above, has even led to memes. With his long history on the bench, though, Ellis has had a chance to handle other hot potato cases.

In one of the highest-profile cases Ellis presided over, he sided with the Blackwater security firm in lawsuits filed by Iraqi victims. “A federal judge on Wednesday tossed out a series of lawsuits filed by alleged Iraqi victims of the contractor once known as Blackwater USA, but is allowing the plaintiffs to refile their claims,” The Associated Press reported at the time.

Although Ellis allowed the Iraqis to refile their cases, he made it tougher for them to prevail. “Ellis is allowing most of the plaintiffs to refile, but only if they will be able to prove that employees engaged in intentional killings and beatings,” a higher standard than recklessness or “a culture of lawlessness,” AP reported. That decision came down in 2009.

In 2006, BBC reported, Ellis “dismissed a lawsuit brought by a German citizen who says he was kidnapped and beaten by the CIA.”

“In times of war, our country, chiefly through the executive branch, must often take exceptional steps to thwart the enemy,” the judge stated in his decision.

That same year, according to The New Orleans Times-Picayune, Ellis allowed former Democratic Congressman William Jefferson to “remain free pending his appeal of his guilty verdict on 11 corruption counts.” He meted out a sentence of 13 years in prison, though.

Ellis also ruled against Wikimedia in “an anti-surveillance lawsuit… ruling in favor of the National Security Agency,” according to Arstechnica.com. Essentially he ruled that Wikimedia and others “could not prove that they had been surveilled,” the site reports.

5. Ellis Sentenced the ‘American Taliban’ Defendant to Prison & Demanded to See a Document Outlining the Mueller Team’s Scope

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Paul Manafort.

In the case of Paul Manafort, who faces bank and tax fraud allegations not involving Trump’s presidential campaign (and an investigation prosecutors revealed predated the Mueller probe), the judge demanded to see the memorandum documenting Mueller’s scope. Ellis has the power to rule whether the Manafort case will proceed – at least regarding the charges in his court; he hasn’t indicated how he will rule on that question.

“We don’t want anyone in this country with unfettered power. It’s unlikely you’re going to persuade me the special prosecutor has power to do anything he or she wants,” Ellis said in court on the Manafort case. “The American people feel pretty strongly that no one has unfettered power.” Manafort also still faces charges – the bulk of them – in a different Washington D.C. court.

However, Trump seized on the judge’s comments at an NRA rally on May 4, 2018, saying, “Judge T.S. Ellis who is really something very special I hear from many standpoints. He is a respected person.”

Michael Dreeben, the deputy solicitor general arguing for Mueller’s team, stated that the team’s scope “did cover the activity in the indictment” against Manafort, USA Today reported, to which Ellis retorted, “Cover bank fraud in 2005 and 2007? Tell me how!”

According to Fox News, Ellis was the sentencing judge in the case against the so-called “American Taliban,” John Walker Lindh. He sentenced Lindh, then 21, to 20 years in prison “after he pleaded guilty to charges related to his activity with the Taliban in Afghanistan,” Fox reports.



“OUR VALUES ARE ALL WE HAVE.” THIS IS WHY I CARE SO MUCH ABOUT THE ILLEGAL TRUMP TAKEOVER. I KNOW. MAYBE IT’S JUST “HARDBALL” POLITICS, BUT IF IT ISN’T ILLEGAL WE SHOULD MAKE LAWS TO DECLARE IT SO. THIS ISN’T A GAME.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-comey-interviewed-on-cbs-this-morning/
By KATHRYN WATSON CBS NEWS May 4, 2018, 8:44 AM
James Comey weighs in on "dangerous" Giuliani comments, Russia probe

VIDEO – COMEY’S TAKE 9:46

It's been nearly one year exactly since former FBI Director James Comey discovered he was fired, by television, on May 9, 2017. On Friday, Comey told "CBS This Morning" he's proud of the work the FBI has done since, and hopes people will "speak out" when the nation's institutions are attacked.

"Whatever our vigorous policy disagreements, our values are all we have and if our leaders and the people they lead don't recognize that and stand up for those values, who are we as a country?" Comey said, in what is his final TV appearance to complete his tour for his new book, "A Higher Loyalty."

Comey's appearance came shortly after President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani claimed on Fox News Wednesday night that Mr. Trump fired Comey "because Comey would not, among other things, say that he wasn't a target" in the FBI's Russia investigation. Giuliani compared FBI investigators who raided the home and office of Trump attorney Michael Cohen to Nazi storm troopers. Comey addressed that claim Friday morning.

"The notion that the FBI is made up of Nazi storm troopers is just wrong and dangerous," Comey said.

Giuliani also called for Comey to be prosecuted — as has Mr. Trump — for divulging memos he wrote last year about interactions with the president. Mr. Trump has slammed Comey as an "untruthful slime ball," calling Comey a "LEAKER & LIAR."

"We're lucky to live in a country where facts matter and that people aren't prosecuted by people tweeting about them," Comey said Friday.

Comey said that, if he happened to be special counsel Robert Mueller, he would have a number of questions for Mr. Trump — specifically, related to discovering whether there was any obstruction of justice. Comey said it would be important to "understand what his state of mind was," referring to Mr. Trump. It remains unclear if or when Mr. Trump would be interviewed by Mueller.

Comey, in his book, calls Mr. Trump "untethered to truth." On CBS' The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Comey joked he is like the breakup Mr. Trump can't get past.

"He's tweeted at me probably 50 times," Comey said of Mr. Trump to Colbert. "I've been gone for a year, I'm like the breakup he can't get over. He wakes up in the morning ... I'm out there living my best life, he wakes up in the morning and tweets at me."

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THE REALLY IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE -- 33 PHOTOGRAPHS OF HORSES DOING WHAT THEY DO BEST. SIT DOWN AND WATCH THE POWER AND THE BEAUTY OF HORSES RUNNING. I HAD TO SEARCH FOR 20 MINUTES TO FIND A NEWS SITE THAT WAS ACTUALLY SHOWING A VIDEO OF THIS. WHAT GIVES?? ARE THEY TRYING TO SAVE MONEY? I DON’T LIKE IT!

THIS IS THE SITE WHERE I FINALLY LOCATED IT:

VIDEO -- https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/horses/triple/derby/2018/05/05/watch-replay-video-kentucky-derby-justify/555234002/

PHOTOS -- https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/2018-kentucky-derby/
STORY -- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justify-wins-kentucky-derby-winners-list-finish-today-2018-05-05/

Justify won the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, leading the pack of 20 horses through the mud at Churchill Downs. The 2-year-old colt was the favorite going into the race. His trainer Bob Baffert has now won his fifth Kentucky Derby.

Jockey Mike Smith, 52, earned his second Derby victory, managing to pull it off with only a few specks of mud on his white and green silks. Justify, the 5-2 favorite in the field of 20, ran 1¼ miles in 2:04.20.

Good Magic finished second and Audible was another head back in third.

This story is developing check back for updates.

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IF YOU TRUMPITES OUT THERE THINK PUTIN WOULD MAKE A GOOD MASTER, THINK AGAIN. AND TRUST ME. HE WON’T BE A FRIEND TO TRUMP FOR VERY LONG.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexei-navalny-putin-foe-russian-opposition-leader-detained-protest-moscow-today-2018-05-05/
CBS/AP May 5, 2018, 2:46 PM
Sweeping arrests amid anti-Putin protests across Russia

PHOTOGRAPH -- Russian police officers detain a protester during an unauthorized anti-Putin rally called by opposition leader Alexei Navalny on May 5, 2018 in Moscow, two days ahead of Vladimir Putin's inauguration for a fourth Kremlin term. MAXIM ZMEYEV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

MOSCOW -- Russians angered by the impending inauguration of Vladimir Putin to a new term as president protested Saturday in scores of cities across the country -- and police responded by reportedly arresting nearly 1,600 of them, including protest organizer Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption campaigner who is Putin's most prominent foe. Police seized Navalny by the arms and legs and carried the thrashing activist from Moscow's Pushkin Square, where thousands were gathered for an unauthorized protest.

Police also used batons against protesters who chanted "Putin is a thief!" and "Russia will be free!"

Demonstrations under the slogan "He is not our czar" took place throughout the country, from Yakutsk in the far northeast to St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad on the fringes of Europe.

The OVD-Info group, which monitors political repression in Russia, said late Saturday that 1,599 people had been detained at demonstrations in 26 Russian cities. It said 702 were arrested in Moscow alone, and another 232 in St. Petersburg.

Moscow police said about 300 people were detained in the capital, state news agencies said, and there was no official countrywide tally.

"Let my son go!" Iraida Nikolaeva screamed, running after police in Moscow when they detained her son. "He did not do anything! Are you a human or not? Do you live in Russia or not?"

Navalny was to be charged with disobeying police, an offense that carries a sentence of up to 15 days, news reports said, although when he would face a judge was not immediately clear. Navalny has served several multi-week stretches in jail on similar charges.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a protest rally ahead of President Vladimir Putin's inauguration ceremony, Moscow

PHOTOGRAPH -- Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (C) attends a protest rally ahead of President Vladimir Putin's inauguration ceremony, Moscow, Russia May 5, 2018. STRINGER/REUTERS

In St. Petersburg, police blocked off a stretch of Nevsky Prospekt as a crowd of about 1,000 marched along the renowned avenue. Video showed some demonstrators being detained. Protesters there shouted "Jail the tsar!" the BBC reports. Activists have also been using a Russian hashtag on Twitter that translates as: "He's not our tsar."

Putin is to be inaugurated for a six-year term on Monday after winning re-election in March with 77 percent of the vote. Navalny had hoped to challenge him on the ballot but was blocked because of a felony conviction in a case that supporters regard as falsified in order to marginalize him.

Navalny is not an elected politician, but has led protests against Putin and his allies since the 2011 parliamentary election. Navalny has called nationwide demonstrations several times in the past year, and the turnout has rattled the Kremlin.

Saturday's protests attracted crowds of hundreds in cities that are far remote from Moscow, challenging authorities' contention that Navalny and other opposition figures appeal only to a small, largely urban elite.

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BERNIE SANDERS HAS A GREAT START. HAS HIT THREE OR FOUR PLACES IN PENNSYLVANIA THIS WEEKEND, AND THE CROWDS ARE PREDICTABLY LARGE. HE IS STUMPING FOR OTHER PROGRESSIVES, INCLUDING NEW CANDIDATES, AND SEVERAL PEOPLE EXPRESSED APPROVAL FOR THE NEW GUYS ALSO, EVEN WITHOUT SANDERS.
IT ISN’T JUST THAT BERNIE SANDERS’ TIME HAS COME, BUT THAT PROGRESSIVISM IS POPULAR IN ITS’ OWN RIGHT. THE PEOPLE IN OUR COUNTRY WHO ARE WORKERS ARE “BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE,” AND THEY ARE READY FOR A NEW FDR. I COULD BE WRONG, BUT I BELIEVE THIS IS THE TIME. THERE IS AN ELECTRICITY IN THE AIR. I DIDN’T FEEL THIS GOOD ABOUT AN ELECTION SINCE EUGENE MCCARTHY RAN ON AN ANTI-WAR TICKET. MAYBE I’LL GET A CHANCE HERE NEAR THE END OF MY LIFE TO BE YOUNG AGAIN!

http://www.mcall.com/news/elections/mc-nws-pa-7-bernie-sanders-visits-allentown-20180503-story.html
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MAY 5, 2018 BETHLEHEM

PHOTO GALLERY: U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke at a rally for Greg Edwards, one of six Democrats running for the nomination in Pennsylvania's 7th District. Edwards has cast himself as the progressive candidate and is trooping in Sanders to stump for him. (RICK KINTZEL/ THE MORING CALL)

Espousing themes of economic equality and social justice, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders brought his “political revolution” to Allentown Saturday to rally Democrats behind community organizer Greg Edwards in the Lehigh Valley’s high-profile congressional race.

Sanders, who shared the stage at a packed Miller Symphony Hall with Edwards, vouched for the congressional hopeful’s commitment to “progressive” policies such as universal health care, debt-free education and a higher minimum wage.

Sanders urged the audience to vote in the May 15 primary and reach across the aisle to those who supported Republican President Donald Trump. He said many Trump voters are hurting, too, because they cannot afford health care and are having a tough time making ends meet.

“When ordinary people stand up and fight back, there is nothing that will stop us,” Sanders yelled to an applauding crowd, raising his fist into the air.

Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont and one-time presidential hopeful, spoke about 35 minutes in support of Edwards, a left-leaning pastor competing against five others for the Democratic nomination in the 7th Congressional District, which covers Lehigh, Northampton and southern Monroe counties.

The stop was the last in a two-day tour through Pennsylvania, a battleground state Trump won in 2016. Sanders joined Braddock Mayor John Fetterman, who is running for lieutenant governor, at a rally Friday in Philadelphia, and attended another rally Saturday morning in Lancaster with Jess King, a Democrat running in Pennsylvania’s 11th District.

Sanders said his “political revolution” includes getting strong candidates to run for all levels of government to support policies that take on corporations and benefit working families.

Democrats hope to flip the newly redrawn 7th District, much of which is now represented by outgoing Rep. Charlie Dent, a Republican. Also in the Democratic primary race are Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli, attorney Susan Wild, social worker Rick Daugherty, engineering professor Roger Ruggles and retired youth case worker David Clark.

Some Democrats have largely embraced parts of Sanders’ agenda, such as universal health care, and some have tried to claim the “progressive” label. Last week, Wild received an endorsement for Lehigh Valley for All, a local group organized to “to connect, organize and mobilize progressives across the Valley,” according to the organization’s website.

Sanders told the crowd that Edwards was the right person to fight side by side with him in Washington.

“We can do it. We can rebuild our infrastructure. We can raise the minimum wage. We can guarantee health care to all people. We can end sexism and racism and homophobia and xenophobia,” he said. “We are a great people. We are a great people who have done so many things throughout our history. And now is the time for us to stand up fight back and elect representatives like Greg Edwards.”

Edwards, who spoke immediately before Sanders, championed the same agenda with a populist tone.

“When the people in power meet the power of the people, that’s the nexus of change,” Edwards told the cheering crowd, some of whom held up his campaign signs.

The crowd began gathering outside Miller Symphony Hall before noon, more than two hours before the program began.

“I would have voted for Bernie in the last election if I was old enough,” said Charlotte Bloys, 18, of Bethlehem. “I would have voted for him 1,000 times. He is truly progressive, supporting universal health care and education.”

His endorsement of Edwards helped her quickly weed through the field of candidates as she plans her first vote.

Kevin Horn, 51, of Easton, brought his 15-year-old son Elijah to hear Sanders speak.

“It’s historic,” said Horn, who voted for Sanders and supports Edwards. “He was very close to becoming president of the United States.”

Issues such as affordable education hit home with him as his son aspires to study computer science at Stanford.

Zinnia Santiago, 23, of Allentown supported Edwards long before Sanders’ endorsement came along, but Sanders’ presence just underscores the importance of the race, she said.

Getting the right politician elected, she said, can “transform a community from the inside out.”

“I’m vested in my community,” she said.

The winner of the Democratic primary will face either Marty Nothstein or Dean Browning, who are competing for the Republican nomination. Tim Silfies has said he is running as a Libertarian.

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FROM NOW ON, READ ALL THOSE CANDIDATES’ WEBSITES. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I’VE HEARD THIS KIND OF THING, BUT IT’S NO SURPRISE GIVEN OUR CURRENT POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/patrick-little-neo-nazi-senate-candidate-california-republican-convention/
AP May 5, 2018, 10:05 PM
Neo-Nazi Senate candidate kicked out of California GOP convention

PHOTOGRAPH -- Patrick Little. YOUTUBE / PAT2018

SAN DIEGO -- An anti-Semitic Senate candidate who praised Adolf Hitler has been kicked out of the California Republican Party's convention in San Diego. State GOP spokesman Matt Fleming says Patrick Little was ejected from the gathering Saturday.

Little is running against Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who's seeking a fifth full term. He made headlines when a recent poll put him in second place with 18 percent of the vote.

Little's campaign website advocates for "limiting representation of Jews in the government."

Fleming says Little has never been an active member of the party. Fleming says the GOP condemns "anti-Semitism and any other form of religious bigotry."

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2017'S GUN MASSACRES

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CBS NEWS May 5, 2018, 1:05 PM
More active shooter situations in 2017 than any other year: FBI

PHOTOGRAPH -- This Oct. 9, 2017, image shows a makeshift memorial for victims of a mass shooting in Las Vegas. JOHN LOCHER / AP

A new report released by the FBI says there were 30 active shooter situations in 2017, which is more than any year previously recorded. The bureau defines an active shooter situation as one or more individuals "actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area" with the use of one or more firearms.

The report said there were 50 active shooter incidents in 2016 and 2017. They left 221 people killed and 722 people wounded. All of the shooters were male and each incident was a "single-shooter event." Three events made those numbers skyrocket: the 2017 Las Vegas strip shooting (58 killed, 489 wounded), the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (49 killed, 53 wounded), and the 2017 church shooting in Sutherland, Texas (26 killed, 20 wounded).

The FBI said the report was undertaken "to provide clarity" to federal, state and campus law enforcement, educators and the general public as they "seek to neutralize threats" and save lives during active shooter incidents.

The report said officers exchanged gunfire with shooters in 14 incidents. Thirteen officers were killed in six incidents and 20 were injured in eight events. It said the most came from the 2016 shooting at a protest in Dallas, Texas, in which five officers were killed and nine were injured.

There were 10 incidents where citizens confronted the shooter. In eight of those incidents, one or more citizens successfully ended the shooting. In four of the incidents, citizens possessed valid firearms permits and successfully ended the incident.

"Their selfless actions likely saved many lives," the report said.

Former FBI Agent James Gagliano told USA Today he wasn't surprised by the report's findings. He said the rise of violence could be blamed on a number of factors, including video games, copycats and accessibility to guns.

"Part of it is these individuals who see one gunman on the news and the think, 'Wow, if they did this, I can do it, too,'" Gagliano told USA Today. "It's a vicious circle and for the most part after these incidents, nothing changes. We all retreat to our corners and bicker."

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IF THESE NEW LAVA-SPEWING CRACKS KEEP OPENING UP AT KILAUEA, WILL WE BE THINKING IN TERMS OF MOUNT VESUVIUS SOON? PERSONALLY, I WOULDN’T LIVE ON A VOLCANIC ISLAND LIKE THAT. I’D MOVE TO KANSAS OR SOMETHING. ON THE OTHER HAND, IN KANSAS, THERE ARE MEGA-TORNADOES. A LADY I KNEW WHO WAS FROM CALIFORNIA SAID, WHEN I ASKED HER HOW SHE MANAGED TO LIVE ON THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT, “HOW COULD I STAND ALL THE LIGHTNING STORMS.” I PREFER LIGHTNING, BECAUSE IT’S REALLY BEAUTIFUL, BUT THE KEY IS TO KEEP A HEALTHY RESPECT FOR STORMS. DON’T GO OUTDOORS UNLESS YOU REALLY NEED TO, AND ESPECIALLY DON’T SIT UNDER A TREE OR DANGLE YOUR FEET IN THE SWIMMING POOL.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/05/06/a-very-fast-moving-situation-lava-shoots-through-hawaii-neighborhood-as-new-fissures-form/
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‘A very fast-moving situation’: Lava shoots through Hawaii neighborhood as new fissures form
BY AMY B WANG
MAY 6 AT 12:12 PM

Less than a week ago, Leilani Estates was the picture of serenity on Hawaii’s Big Island, a subdivision in the island’s eastern Puna district filled with wooden homes nestled into tropical plant-filled lots.

The eruption of the island’s most active volcano changed everything.

Shortly after Kilauea erupted Thursday, the ground split open on the east side of Leilani Estates, exposing an angry red beneath the lush landscape. From the gash, molten rock burbled and splashed, then shot as high as 80 to 100 feet in the air.

The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency called it “active volcanic fountaining.” Some residents insisted it was Pele, the Hawaiian volcano goddess, come to reclaim her land. Residents there were ordered to flee amid threats of fires and “extremely high levels of dangerous” sulfur dioxide gas.

Soon, another such fissure had formed less than three streets to the west. Then another, and another. From the vents, hot steam — and noxious gases — rose, before magma broke through and splattered into the air.

As of Sunday morning local time, at least 10 such fissure vents were reported in the neighborhood, including two that had opened anew late Saturday night local time. More outbreaks are likely to occur along the rift zone, officials said.


A new fissure erupted near fissures 2 and 7, beginning with small lava spattering at about 8:44 p.m. By 9 p.m., lava fountains as high as about 230 feet were erupting from the fissure. (U.S. Geological Survey)
Drone footage showed lava spouting along the fissures that had formed, creeping toward Leilani Estates homes and leaving lines of smoldering trees in their wake. The flows destroyed or cut off several streets in the neighborhood, typically home to about 1,700 people — before most of them evacuated last week.

At least five homes in the subdivision have been destroyed by fire, according to Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim, who warned residents to heed evacuation notices. On Friday, Kim had said there might be a small window of time residents could return home to rescue pets or important items left behind, but he said it remained too dangerous Saturday, Hawaii News Now reported.

“This is a very fast-moving situation,” Kim told the news site. “This is unfortunately not the end.”

Another structure!!!

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The road ends here... This mornings eruption crossed Leilani Boulevard !! . . #lava #leilani #ig_oahu #ig_worldphoto #hnnsunrise

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Kilauea first erupted Thursday, sending fountains of lava gushing out of the ground and billowing clouds of steam and volcanic ash into the sky on the eastern side of the island.

Three days later, some residents there continue to suffer through a triple whammy of threats. From below, lava has spewed forth out of an increasing number of fissures that have opened up in the ground, oozing toward homes.

Several earthquakes — including the strongest to hit Hawaii in more than four decades — have jolted the island’s residents, some as they were in the midst of evacuating.

And in the air, noxious fumes from the volcano are what some officials say could be the greatest threat to public health in the wake of its eruption.


After the eruption Thursday, the island shook at regular intervals, but especially around midday Friday: A 5.6-magnitude quake hit south of the volcano around 11:30 a.m., followed about an hour later by a 6.9-magnitude temblor, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The latter was felt as far away as Oahu and struck in nearly the exact same place as a deadly 7.4-magnitude earthquake in 1975, according to the Geological Survey.

Videos posted to social media showed homes visibly shaking, items clattering to the floor at supermarkets and waves forming in swimming pools as the 6.9-magnitude quake rattled the Big Island on Friday afternoon.

“I think the whole island felt it,” said Cori Chong, who was in her bedroom with her foster dog, Monty, when the 6.9-magnitude quake struck, frightening both of them. Even though Chong lives on the Hamakua coast, about an hour north of the earthquake’s epicenter, the shaking in her home was so violent that it caused furniture to move and glass to shatter.

David Burlingame, who lives about two miles west of Leilani Estates, told The Washington Post that he and a friend ran outside when the earthquake hit “and watched my house just shake back and forth.”

“Everybody is kind of on edge,” Burlingame said Saturday of both the potential for additional earthquakes and the unpredictability of the lava flows. “The worst part is kind of waiting to see, because you really never can tell what can happen.”

#earthquake #hawaii video my boyfriend took in our house in Papaikou during the 6.9 earthquake 😳 pic.twitter.com/xAAjeN1zFO

— Allison (@Allieb1792) May 5, 2018
The earthquakes also prompted the rare closure of Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park after they damaged some of the park’s trails, craters and roads. The first earthquake triggered a cliff to collapse into the ocean, and fissures began to appear in the ground at a popular overlook near the Jaggar Museum.

Park officials said they canceled hikes Friday and evacuated about 2,600 visitors, along with all nonemergency employees.

“Safety is our main priority at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, and it is currently not safe to be here,” park superintendent Cindy Orlando said in a statement. “We will monitor the situation closely, and reopen when it is safe to do so.”

The county civil defense agency reported that the threat of a tsunami was low after the earthquakes, though officials warned that residents were not in the clear yet.

“Everything is still elevated,” agency administrator Talmadge Magno said, according to Hawaii News Now. “It kind of gets you nervous.”

Thursday’s eruption prompted the County of Hawaii’s managing director, Wil Okabe, to issue a state of emergency declaration. Gov. David Ige (D) also issued an emergency proclamation and activated Hawaii’s National Guard to help with evacuations.

“Please be safe,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) wrote on Twitter.

Lava from a fissure slowly advances to the northeast on Hookapu Street after the eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano on Saturday in the Leilani Estates subdivision near Pahoa, Hawaii. (U.S. Geological Survey via Getty Images)
Jordan Sonner, a Big Island Realtor, was on another part of the island taking pictures for an upcoming listing Thursday when she “got the call that there was lava in Leilani” and rushed back to her home, just outside Leilani Estates.

“To describe it in a single word: chaos,” Sonner said of the evacuation in an interview with The Post on Saturday. “My immediate threat was not the lava. It was the sulfur dioxide gas.”

It took Sonner about an hour and a half to reach her home, grab important documents and her pets — four dogs and a chinchilla — and scramble back out of there, she said. She’s now staying with a friend in Mountain View, about 20 miles northwest of Leilani Estates, and expects it could be a long while before it’s safe for residents to return.

“It’s so hard to tell what is going to happen because it’s just so early. This volcano being a shield volcano, the way that it erupts, it just erupts slowly,” Sonner said. “We kind of just have to sit and wait to see what direction the lava is going to flow in and what other fissures are going to open up. This is far from over.”

When asked whether she was afraid she would lose her home, Sonner paused, before describing the uniqueness of the community there.

“The way I kind of look at it is, the land doesn’t really belong to us. It belongs to Pele,” Sonner said, referring to the Hawaiian volcano goddess. “We get to live on it while we can, and if she wants it back, she’ll take it. I have good insurance.”

What an erupting volcano looks like in Hawaii
View Photos The Big Island’s Kilauea explodes, prompting evacuations as lava threatens communities.
As of Friday afternoon, at least a few hundred people had evacuated their homes in Leilani Estates and nearby Lanipuna Gardens, taking refuge at local churches, Red Cross shelters, and with family and friends in other parts of Hawaii, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

Gabbard warned that, in some ways, the threat from the sulfur dioxide gas could be more dangerous than the lava flows, which had stopped in places after the eruption. If conditions worsened, even first responders would not be able to go into the affected neighborhoods to help trapped residents, she added.

“Sulfur dioxide gas can be so toxic and thick in some areas that it can be fatal, especially to those who have respiratory illnesses,” Gabbard said. “The wind can push [the gas] in different directions, so that’s a very serious concern given the high levels, and, you know, people don’t necessarily have the kinds of protective gas masks that they would need if they were right in the thick of this gas.”


A fissure produces steam from a street after the eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano Friday. (U.S. Geological Survey/Getty Images)
Kilauea is the youngest and most active volcano on Hawaii Island, according to the USGS. The eruption from the volcano came hours after a 5.0-magnitude earthquake jolted the island Thursday morning. As The Post’s Sarah Kaplan reported, Kilauea is made of basalt, a fluid lava that makes for effusive — rather than explosive — eruptions:

Rather than building up into a steep, towering peak like Krakatau in Indonesia or Mount St. Helens in Washington state, the fluid rock at Kilauea creates a broad, shallow dome known as a shield volcano.

Shield volcanoes “are really voluminous, the largest volcanoes on Earth, but because they have those long, low-angle slopes, they’re not very dramatic,” said Tari Mattox, a geologist who worked at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory for six years. “People are surprised when they go to Hawaii and they say, ‘Where’s the volcano?’ And I tell them, ‘You’re standing on it!’ ”

… Rocks moving upward through the mantle beneath Hawaii begin to melt about 50 miles beneath the surface. That magma is less dense than the surrounding rock, so it continues to rise until it “ponds” in a reservoir that’s roughly three miles wide and one to four miles beneath the summit. As pressure builds in the magma chamber, the magma seeks out weak spots in the surrounding rock, squeezing through the earth until it reaches a vent to the surface.

Geologists said the current seismic activities around Puna most closely resemble the events that precipitated a 1955 eruption, according to Hawaii News Now. That eruption lasted about three months and left almost 4,000 acres of land covered in lava, the news site reported.

More recently in 2014, lava again threatened the Puna district, specifically the town of Pahoa and its surrounding area, The Post reported. During that event, lava flowed as quickly as 20 yards per hour, and up to 60 structures were at risk.

Lindsey Bever and Allyson Chiu contributed to this report.

Read more:
What’s happening inside Hawaii’s Kilauea, the world’s longest-erupting volcano
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Amy B Wang is a general assignment reporter covering national and breaking news for The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2016 after seven years with the Arizona Republic. Follow @amybwang


WHAT A VOICE, WHAT A MAN!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/johnny-cashs-dyess-arkansas-house-historic-register/
CBS/AP May 5, 2018, 10:49 PM
Johnny Cash's boyhood home added to national historic register

PHOTOGRAPH -- In this Friday, Aug. 8, 2014 file photo, rain clouds gather over the childhood home, dating to the mid 1930s, of singer Johnny Cash, in Dyess, Ark. DANNY JOHNSTON / AP

DYESS, Ark. --The Man in Black's boyhood home has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program announced Friday that the home in Dyess where country music icon Johnny Cash lived from age 3 through high school has been added to the register.

Dyess is a small Arkansas town close to the Tennessee border. Cash's daughter, Rosanne Cash, said town was "just empty land" before President Roosevelt.

The five-room farmhouse was built in 1934 as part of the Dyess Resettlement Colony by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.

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Roseanne Cash showed CBS News' Anthony Mason on "Sunday Morning" in 2014 what would have been Johnny Cash's bedroom, which he shared with his brother, Jack, and sisters, Louise and Reba: "Four children in this room."

Rosanne had first seen the house as a child in 1968, when the Man in Black returned to Dyess -- what he described as "a beautiful little place."

"I sensed this kind of a weight about it, a sadness," she recalled. "And at 12 I didn't really assimilate what that was about.

"I think it took me until now to understand," she said -- to understand how Johnny Cash's strength grew out of the "gumbo soil" of Dyess, and how his sadness took root there, too.

"He lost his brother here, who was his best friend and his hero," she said. "But even more than that, understanding of what it meant to my dad now, I understand what it means to me."

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the house is owned by Arkansas State University, which spent $575,000 to buy, restore, furnish and landscape the property.

Cash died in 2003 at age 71 after an incredibly successful musical career. Among his many hit songs were "I Walk the Line" and "Ring of Fire."

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HOW DID THIS 16 YEAR-OLD GIRL “ASK FOR IT?” IN SOME PARTS OF INDIA RAPING A CHILD BRINGS THE DEATH PENALTY. APPARENTLY RAPING ADULTS IS OKAY, THOUGH. THE PENALTY ON THAT HAS ONLY RECENTLY BEEN RAISED TO TWENTY YEARS IMPRISONMENT. THIS IS THE THIRD OR FOURTH SUCH CASE I’VE SEEN IN THE LAST FEW YEARS. “... WIDESPREAD VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HAD LONG BEEN QUIETLY ACCEPTED.” TO A LESSER DEGREE, THAT IS TRUE OF THE USA ALSO, AT LEAST IN THE SOUTH, OR WAS WHEN I WAS YOUNG.

WOMEN WHO DON’T SIT WITH THEIR LEGS TIGHTLY TOGETHER USED TO BE CONSIDERED TO BE “ASKING FOR IT.” ALTERNATIVELY, IF THAT IS TOO UNCOMFORTABLE FOR THEM, THEY MAY CROSS THEIR LEGS – BUT ONLY AT THE ANKLES. NOT TOO MANY YEARS AGO THINGS OF THAT SORT COULD BE USED AS AN ACCEPTABLE DEFENSE OF A RAPE CHARGE, AND WOMEN WHEN THEY DARED TO DECLARE A RAPE WERE “RAPED AGAIN” IN THE COURTROOM BY THE DEFENSE LAWYER’S CROSS-EXAMINATION.

THAT COMES IN HARSH CONTRAST TO “MANSPREADING,” WHICH WAS DISCUSSED TODAY IN A BBC ARTICLE. THIS OCCURS FREQUENTLY NOT JUST IN THE US BUT “EVERYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD.” A FEMALE PSYCHOLOGIST CALLED IT A PRODUCT OF MALE PRIVILEGE AND “TOXIC MASCULINITY,” WHICH IT OBVIOUSLY IS. ALSO, IF A WOMAN’S LEGS BEING SOMEWHAT OPEN IS “ASKING FOR IT,” THEN A MAN’S LEGS SPREAD (TO A RIDICULOUS DEGREE) CAN AS LOGICALLY BE CONSIDERED A THREAT OF RAPE. RIGHT?

WOMEN FIGHT BACK AGAINST MANSPREADING: SEE THE FOLLOWING -- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05p46lw.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/16-year-old-girl-india-burned-to-death-after-rape/
CBS/AP May 5, 2018, 12:03 PM
16-year-old girl burned to death after rape in India

PHOTOGRAPH -- In this April 15, 2018 file photo, an Indian protestor stands with a placard during a protest against two recently reported rape cases as they gather near the Indian parliament in New Delhi, India. OINAM ANAND/AP

PATNA, India -- Indian police on Saturday arrested 14 people suspected of kidnapping, raping and burning to death a teenage girl, the latest in rising crimes against women in India despite toughening of laws. District Magistrate Jitendera Singh said the accused abducted the girl from Chatra, a village in eastern Jharkhand state, while she was attending a wedding ceremony on Thursday. Some of them allegedly raped her before letting her go home.

The village council leaders imposed a fine of 50,000 rupees -- about $770 -- on the accused the next day. Singh said the suspects beat up the girl's family members for complaining against them and burned her to death after finding her at home alone on Friday.

"The two accused thrashed the parents and rushed to the house where they set the girl ablaze with the help of their accomplices," Ashok Ram, the officer in charge of the local police station, told the AFP news agency.

Singh said police were searching for the main suspect in the case. The BBC reports the girl was 16.

8-year-old girl's rape, murder causes outrage across India
India has been shaken by a series of sexual assaults since 2012, when a student was gang-raped and murdered on a moving New Delhi bus. That attack galvanized a country where widespread violence against women had long been quietly accepted.

While the government has passed a series of laws increasing punishment for rape of an adult to 20 years in prison, it's rare for more than a few weeks to pass without another brutal sexual assault being reported.

Responding to widespread outrage over the recent rape and killings of young girls and other attacks on children, India's government last month approved the death penalty for people convicted of raping children under age 12.

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